University of Missouri College of Engineering
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1859 |
| Dean | Elizabeth Loboa |
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Columbia, Missouri 38°56′46″N 92°19′49″W / 38.94615°N 92.33014°WCoordinates: 38°56′46″N 92°19′49″W / 38.94615°N 92.33014°W |
| Website | engineering |
The University of Missouri College of Engineering is one of the 19 academic schools and colleges of the University of Missouri. The college traces its beginning to the first engineering courses taught west of the Mississippi River in 1849. The college awards bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees. The college is ranked 88th nationally by the U.S. News and World Report. The college operates the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, the largest university research reactor in the U.S.
As of the end of the 2014-15 academic year, the MU College of Engineering has a total enrollment of 3,812 students — 3,220 undergraduates, 348 master's students and 244 doctoral students. The average freshman ACT score for College of Engineering students is 28.2.
The total amount of faculty is 113, and the college has more than 22,000 living alumni. For the 2014-15 academic year, total scholarship money totaled more than $1 million. More than 50 student organizations and design teams are affiliated with the college.
In 1849, the University of Missouri offered the first collegiate engineering course west of the Mississippi River – a civil engineering course focusing on "Surveying, Levelling and Classical Topography," taught by the university's acting president, William Wilson Hudson. Hudson would go on to become the first chair of civil engineering in 1856, and the Board of Curators’ officially would create a School of Civil Engineering in 1859 before losing it in an organizational reshuffling in 1860.
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts, the first of which passed in 1862 and accepted by the State of Missouri the following year, provided space for institutions with specialties in agriculture and engineering. By the end of the 1860s, the University of Missouri had departments of civil and military engineering, and in 1871, the School of Engineering was incorporated by the College of Agriculture as a special department before separating into its own institution in 1877 with Thomas J. Lowry as its first dean. The building that eventually would become the current Thomas and Nell Lafferre Hall was constructed in 1893, giving the college its own home.
The college would continue to hit landmarks and expand throughout the years, including seeing its first female graduate, Ada Wilson, in 1907, and the creation of the Engineering Library in 1906. Thomas Edison gave the university an electric dynamo and incandescent lamps in 1882, and in 1885, the college created a department of electrical engineering. Mechanical engineering came next in 1891. Chemical engineering debuted as a department in 1903, with bioengineering following in 1917, industrial and manufacturing systems engineering in 1958 and nuclear engineering in 1964. Computer science moved from the College of Arts and Sciences to Engineering in 1995, with the Information Technology program launching in 2005.
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